Swarved Mahamandir

Dec. 19, 2023

Prime Minister Monday recently inaugurated the world's largest meditation centre, Swarved Mahamandir, in Varanasi.

About the Swarved Mahamandir:

  • It is the world's largest meditation centre, where 20,000 people can sit together and meditate.
  • Location: It is located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
  • It aims to illuminate humankind with its spiritual aura and engulf the world in a state of peaceful alertness.
  • The temple is named after the Swarved, a spiritual literature written by Sadguru Shri Sadafal Deoji Maharaj, the creator of Vihangam Yoga and an eternal yogi.
  • The temple propagates Swarveda teachings, with a focus on Brahma Vidya, a body of knowledge that enables spiritual seekers to sustain a state of perfect Zen, a state of unyielding constancy in peace and happiness.
  • Features:
    • It is a seven-floor superstructure.
    • It has a beautiful design with 125-petal lotus domes. 
    • The ceiling and doors with intricate carvings are made of teakwood. 
    • The pink sandstone decor surrounds the temple walls, and there is an exquisite garden with medicinal herbs.
    • Verses of the Swarveda have been carved upon the walls of the Mahamandir.

Key Facts about Vihangam Yoga:

  • It is an Indian modality of Yoga and meditation, founded by Sadguru Sadafal Deo Ji Maharaj in 1924. 
  • The name is composed of two root words: “Vihag”, which means bird, and “Yog”, which means union.
  • The name symbolises the idea of a bird that leaves the earth and flies high and free in the sky – the goal of Vihangam Yoga being our soul to be free of the attachment to the physical world and realise its true, free nature.
  • Only then can one’s individual consciousness can unite with the universal consciousness (the Supreme Being) and reach permanent peace and bliss.